Good morning. 
Wednesday in Whitewater will be partly sunny with a high of eighty-four. Sunrise is 5:44 AM and sunset 8:17 PM, for 14h 33m 13s of daytime. The moon is a waxing gibbous with 71.8% of its visible disk illuminated.
Today is the one thousand three hundred fifty-ninth day.
The Whitewater Unified School District’s board meets via audiovisual conferencing in closed session at 6:15 PM and open session at 7:00 PM.
On this day in 1958, Pres. Eisenhower signs into law the National Aeronautics and Space Act, which creates the National Aeronautics and Space Administration.
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Peter Whoriskey reports PPP was intended to keep employees on the payroll. Workers at some big companies have yet to be rehired:
But a closer look at three large companies that received millions from the $517 billion program shows that some companies have not retained most of their staff on the payrolls.
The Fairmont Grand Del Mar in San Diego, a luxury hotel owned by a group led by Richard Blum, a private equity chief and the husband of Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.), received $6.4 million from the program. The hotel has been closed and most of its hundreds of workers are unemployed and unpaid, union officials said. To maintain their health insurance, workers send money back to the company.
A large group of restaurant companies operating under the umbrella of Orlando-based Earl Enterprises — including Planet Hollywood International, Bertucci’s and Buca di Beppo — similarly received loans in amounts ranging from $26 million to $54 million, according to the federal data, but in the places most affected by the coronavirus pandemic, the restaurants employ only limited crews. The rest of the staff is unemployed and unpaid, employees said.
And the Omni Hotels & Resorts, owned by Texas billionaire Robert Rowling, were approved for multiple loans from the program — one for each of 15 hotels — totaling $30 million to $71 million. But seven remain closed, and at those, most workers are on unpaid furloughs, union officials said.
Eric Tucker reports US officials: Russia behind spread of virus disinformation:
Russian intelligence services are using a trio of English-language websites to spread disinformation about the coronavirus pandemic, seeking to exploit a crisis that America is struggling to contain ahead of the presidential election in November, U.S. officials said Tuesday.
Two Russians who have held senior roles in Moscow’s military intelligence service known as the GRU have been identified as responsible for a disinformation effort meant to reach American and Western audiences, U.S. government officials said. They spoke to The Associated Press on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to speak publicly.
The information had previously been classified, but officials said it had been downgraded so they could more freely discuss it. Officials said they were doing so now to sound the alarm about the particular websites and to expose what they say is a clear link between the sites and Russian intelligence.
Between late May and early July, one of the officials said, the websites singled out Tuesday published about 150 articles about the pandemic response, including coverage aimed either at propping up Russia or denigrating the U.S.